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5:30 p.m. eastern today. they will move merrick garland s attorney general nomination forward and we will hear the maiden floor speech of new california senator. now, live to the floor of the u.s. senate here on c-span2. the president pro tempore: the senate will come to order. the chaplain, dr. barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. dr. black. the chaplain: let us pray. eternal god, today, make our senators custodians of truth. remind them that when people call a lie the truth, they tamper with their value judgment. give our lawmakers the wisdom to know that to scrape away their value judgment will eventually cause them to lose their sense of moral distinctions. may they understand that deception is difficult to quarantine and will corrupt all sense of moral discrimination. lord, thank you for being a shelter for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble. we pray in your great name. amen. the president pro tempore: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance.
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Youre watching, ill just bear with me. So robin and deb hall reminder of our top you stories for lankin supp been celebrating the streets of columba after president got the biology pox. I submitted a letter of resignation. The Speaker Parliament says the letter must be for authenticity. With al fernandez is in colombo with the latest on roger pox. His Resignation Letter it will have to go through a very stringent verification process. Is what the Speakers Office says. That will involve ensuring and making sure that it is what it purports to be. The original resignation document of resident got arbitrage boxer, obviously, a bit earlier in the day we heard that the president had flown from the motives to sing a pull. But here at the protest ground 0, you can probably hear all the sort of speeches and some of the sound from behind. A lot of those features still are sort of reacting to that news alert that the resignation has come. So a lot of a sort of silly brain tree kind of speeches, b
Good evening and welcome to msnbcs continuing special coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. Im lawrence odonnell. We begin tonight with the numbers. The number of reported coronavirus cases in the United States is now over 963,000. As of tonight there are more than 54,000 reported deaths linked to the coronavirus in the United States. Those statistics get grimmer every day, but in some parts of the country the numbers do seem to be moving in the right direction. New york suffered 367 deaths in the last 24 hours, and that is about half of new yorks peak of deaths per day nearly three weeks ago. For Many Americans, this weekend actually felt like a weekend for the first time in a long time because they got a full weekend break from the tension of watching the president of the United States discuss the coronavirus pandemic in the White House Briefing room. That means the country has now lived through two consecutive days without having to watch the president of the United States suggest t